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Thematics

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These five thematic journeys provide signposts amid diverse contents on this website, from the conviviality of the dinner table to the turbulent uncertainties of our current times.

Anarchive

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The Anarchive looks at FoAM’s multi-decade existence from different vantage points, to unearth or revisit things that can have generative potential for the here-and-now and the yet-to-come.

Machine Wilderness - ARTIS

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An artist-in-residency programme at ARTIS Royal Zoo in Amsterdam, exploring how human technologies can be developed from an inclusive perspective. Could our technologies be technologies of environmental empathy, kinship and solidarity? Could other species be 'co-authors' and/or beneficiaries?

Resonances

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Resonances is a series of sonic propositions. Listening to the sounds of the Earth unfolding at different timescales. Attuning to matter in its myriad forms and flows. Paying attention to a multitude of voices, omnipresent but often too quiet to notice amidst the noise of human activity.

Becoming Realists of a Larger Reality

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A guided tour along FoAM's interconnected paths through the larger reality.

Some Lithic Attunement Exercises

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Exploring the geological substrates of digital technology in a series of lithic attunement exercises.

Rooted Hauntology Lab

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Rooted Hauntology Co-working Lab is a research trajectory looking at the (im)possibility of collaboration between humans and plants.

Convivia, refugia. Not always everywhere

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On distributed convivia and networked refugia, shelters from the always everywhere of the Digital Age.

Certainty Ltd.

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Certainty Ltd. offers support for personal and organisational transitions, including strategic unplanning, critical uncertainty diagnostics, VUCA therapy, ambient foresight, and bespoke situational awareness.

Institute for Experiments with Business

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The Institute for Experiments with Business (Ibex) is an emergent research entity, situated within the FoAM network. Its interest is to collect, conduct and report on experiments in and with business, including new and wild takes on organisational staples such as budgets, contracts, organisational form, business coaching and the business plan.

Dark Arts, Grey Areas and Other Contingencies

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How do we contend with economic forces of change that create contingencies, influence our lives, affect our livelihoods?

Art, Technology and The Cosmos

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The opening panel of the event on Art, AI and Everything Else, started with not knowing, ventured into augmented sociality, ancestral knowledge, corporate cyborgs, ecological intimacy and more.

Viruscraft

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Viruscraft is a research project combining tangible interfaces, craft and computer games to explore how viruses jump from one host species to another, working with Dr. Ben Longdon and Dr. Ben Ashby.

(Algo|Afro)futures

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(Afro|Algo)futures is a mentoring programme for early career Black artists who want to explore the creative potential of live coding.

Arka Kinari

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Subversive, immersive and partially submerged, Arka Kinari is a multimedia performance staged from the deck of a traditional sailing ship. Using live music and cinematic visuals Arka Kinari imagines life after the carbon economy, resilience to climate change, and re-engagement with our last great commons—the sea.

A printer party

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19 November

Approaching the Inexplicable

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In the slow swarm of light they remain silent, luminous. Eyes in the place of eyes, Ears in the place of ears, tongues tasting chemical gradients across the fungal network of thread-like cells.

Change is coming to the FoAM Kernow studio

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We’ve been up and running since 2014 - much has changed since then, and the time for a shift in direction has come. This post is to outline what’s changing and why.

MonsterCode StrandLAB

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First public experiment in the MonsterCode research-line around Almere beach during the Summer Sessions at StrandLab Almere.

FoAM Ams anniversary

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22 March

The Great Bower Building Experiment

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Bower birds are known for building ornate and impressive structures. We're running an experiment to see how people would build these bowers, given limited materials.